Kimberly Alters

Bio

Kimberly Alters is a politics editor at Mic. She previously worked at HuffPost and TheWeek.com and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. When she's not obsessively checking for typos, she's probably either watching basketball or cooking herself a meal that's way too spicy.
Justin Trudeau wore racist makeup not once, not twice, but at least three times
By Kimberly Alters
Just one month before the country's national election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing public outrage over racist photos that have resurfaced from his past. In two separate images, one from when he was in high school and another…
This devastating PSA shows what back-to-school has become in 2019
By Kimberly Alters
It's mid-September. The air is crisp, yellow buses are out, back-to-school commercials are on the air. But this Sandy Hook Promise ad, produced by the Newtown, Connecticut-based nonprofit organization that focuses on preventing gun violence in…
Unpacking Joe Biden's baffling response to the question of reparations
By Kimberly Alters
All 10 of the candidates who took the stage Thursday in Houston for the third Democratic debate had to fight to get there. Some, like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, had barely scraped…
5 Bernie Sanders policies you should know that aren't Medicare-for-All
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will pit Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) against each…
5 Kamala Harris policies you should know that aren't about criminal justice reform
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will mark the first time that all the leading candidates — former Vice President…
5 Joe Biden policies you should know that aren't Obamacare
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will mark the first time that frontrunner Joe Biden, the former vice president,…
5 Elizabeth Warren policies you should know that aren't the ultra-wealth tax
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will mark the first time that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) will take the stage…
Trump fires National Security Advisor John Bolton via Twitter
By Kimberly Alters
As surely as the sun rises and falls, so too shall various members of the Trump administration. On Tuesday, the latest figure to fall was National Security Advisor John Bolton, whose departure from D.C. was announced on Twitter in the usual…
Why 99% of student debt-forgiveness applicants were denied under Trump
By Kimberly Alters
Forgiveness: It's more than saying sorry, but apparently way less than the government can muster. We know as much thanks to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Thursday that revealed that nearly 99 percent of public servants…
Trump is raiding hurricane recovery funds to build the border wall
By Kimberly Alters
Why go through the trouble of asking for money when you can just ... take it? That seems to be President Trump's approach to building his U.S.-Mexico border wall, given the news this week that the Pentagon has agreed to divert billions of dollars…